Close Call

1 Chapter 1 — A Crowd, A Trick, and a Bad Joke 

2 Chapter 2 — Something Wrong in the Sky 

3 Chapter 3 — The Girl From Nowhere 

4 Chapter 4 — The Impossible Device 

5 Chapter 5 — Someone Is Watching 

6 Chapter 6 — Running Through the Crowd 

7 Chapter 7 — The Impossible Explanation 

8 Chapter 8 — Agents in the Alley 

9 Chapter 9 — The Escape Route 

10 Chapter 10 — Lucas’s Apartment 

11 Chapter 11 — A World That Shouldn’t Exist Yet 

12 Chapter 12 — The Missing Core 

13 Chapter 13 — Proof of Sabotage 

14 Chapter 14 — Lucas’s Suspicion 

15 Chapter 15 — The Signal 

16 Chapter 16 — Night Escape 

17 Chapter 17 — The Closed District 

18 Chapter 8 — Unexpected Guards 

19 Chapter 19 — The Almost Kiss Disaster 

20 Chapter 20 — The Hidden Entrance 

21 Chapter 21 — The Secret Laboratory 

22 Chapter 22 — Lucas’s Father 

23 Chapter 23— The Other Machine 

24 Chapter 24 — The Mysterious Scientist 

25 Chapter 25 — The Terrifying Truth 

26 Chapter 26 — Machine Activation 

27 Chapter 27 — The Agents Attack 

28 Chapter 28 — Time Distortions 

29 The Fracture Widens 

30 The Warning 

31 Aftermath 

32 The Name 

33 The Truth About the Chronarch 

34 Lucas’s Father’s Role 

35 New Mission 

36 Into the City 

37 Public Distortions 

38 Close Call 

39 The Connection 

40 First Confrontation 